[GENERAL] rtree index very large

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Zach
Hi, I've inserted 10 random boxes into a table and created a rtree index on it. Indexing needed a few minutes and finally I got a 200MB page file for the index. Can someone explain this to me? BTW: I did the same with Oracle 8i Spatial and the index seems to be a lot smaller. Selection time

Re: [GENERAL] rtree index very large

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Zach
digits accuracy. still searching for an explanation, Christopher > try to vacuum database : > connect on your psql term on your database then > "VACUUM [VERBOSE] ANALYZE" it. It will clean > the blank spaces and re-organize the indexes. > Oracle seems to do it automaticaly. &

[GENERAL] rtree index very large

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Zach
Hi, I've inserted 10 random boxes into a table (page file size about 8M) and created a rtree index on it. Indexing needed a few minutes and finally I got a 200MB page file for the index. Can someone explain this to me? BTW: I did the same with Oracle 8i Spatial and the index seems to be a